SA: Was Adelaide's Water-Desalination Plant a Bargain?

IVI on 16/06/2014 - 09:08
Last edited 16/06/2014 - 09:24

This is a call for concise & easily verifiable info on the Subj desal.plant.

Please help if you can supply any info, or know who can, thanks:

  1. Is the plant's construction & testing finished?

  2. Is the plant operational?

  3. If so, how much electricity does it use? If not, how much electricity is it expected to use, ie, while running?

  4. Is has been rumoured, that - even when it it NOT running - fees must be paid… (If so, how much & to whom?) Are such fees also to be paid while the plant is running? (Again, how much & to whom?)

  5. Was the plant built under some sort of "PPP" - ie, Public / Private Partnership?

  6. Which organisations can supply &/or verify answers to questions like the above?

  7. Is the plant designed to enable it to run from externally-supplied Heat energy, rather than from a subsystem, which would produce it using electricity?

  8. Has any thought been given to running the plant from zero emission energy from some sort of "Nuclear 2.0" energy source (as now listed in CSIRO's eBook "The Curious Country" - eg, Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) or Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), whenever they begin to come online; Canadians expect theirs to be approved & operational within 5-6 years)?

Thanks for helping. :-)

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  • kingsville on 16/06/2014 - 09:19

    http://www.sawater.com.au/sawater/whatsnew/majorprojects/adp…

    look at SA Water annual reports?

  • pjetson on 16/06/2014 - 09:21
    +6

    You're not asking us to do your homework for you, are you?

    • IVI on 16/06/2014 - 09:32

      I am crowd sourcing leads to info.

      Since the intent is to use the info collected & verified to try determine whether zero emission energy could be used in the existing design, ie, without a whole redesign & huge amount of loss, due either to wasted built portions of the plant or to fees that might need to be paid for its replaced supply of green energy, I consider this a project with significant community interest.

      I am not affiliated with any past or existing supplier to the plant's design, construction or operation… except, of course, as a taxpayer - a supplier of MONEY.

      That may explain the Q in this thread's initial post SUBJ. ;-)

  • pjetson on 16/06/2014 - 10:18

    If you type Adelaide Desalination Plant into Google, it turns up a great many sources of information from variety of organisations, and even a few minutes of looking answers about half of your questions.

  • [Deactivated] on 16/06/2014 - 10:22
    +7

    1) Yes absolutely
    2) Yes absolutely
    3) $60,000 Annually
    4) Yes council, $15,000 Annually.
    5) No
    6) Ozbargain forum
    7) Yes absolutely
    8) No

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